Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Biography
Dr. Curt H. Davis is the founding and current Co-Director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence (CGI) and the Naka Endowed Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Missouri (MU) in Columbia, MO. The CGI was founded in 2005 with a mission to conduct applied / advanced R&D in direct support of U.S. national defense and security objectives. CGI faculty, staff, and students develop advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence algorithms to process, exploit, and analyze data from satellite, airborne, and ground-based remote sensing systems from a wide-range of sensor phenomenologies to generate information / intelligence needed to protect the nation and the men and women serving in the U.S. armed forces throughout the world. Dr. Davis received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS) in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Over the last 10 years, he has led the development of an end-to-end DEV OPS pipeline designed specifically for creation of AI/ML algorithms for detecting a wide variety of military objects in features in large volumes of high-resolution satellite EO imagery. His research results have been documented more than 60 refereed journal publications and more than 100 symposia presentations and proceedings. He has received numerous awards throughout his 30+ year career, and he was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008 for his “contributions to satellite remote sensing.”
Education
PhD from the University of Kansas
BS from the University of Kansas
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Center for Geospatial Intelligence (CGI)
Technical Focus
Satellite remote sensing
AI applications for national security
Automated target recognition